So, I should delete all node_modules in my project(I want that the node_modules folder become completely empty). Just removing folder manually does not suit me.
I read that I can delete it with rm -rf node_modules/ BUT it does not work on WINDOWS.
How to delete it?
Deleting node_modules is as simple as writing the node_modules without a slash:
rm -rf node_modules
rm -rf node_modules shouldn't have a slash at the end /, and this worked for me even on Widows.
rm -rf node_modules.
-rf option tells it to also recursively delete non-empty directories and subdirectories, forcefully
-rf prefix, it has never deleted any other file, say the specific file or folder it is prefixed with. Forcefully, yeah, but using just rm gives you a different error message.Installing globally rimraf will do the job.
npm install -g rimraf
From the docs:
If installed with
npm install rimraf -git can be used as a global command rimraf [ ...] which is useful for cross platform support.
So with installing this package, you can remove directories on all platforms(windows, linux).
All left to do is rimraf node_modules
I have seen a number of developers facing issues with disk space being consumed heavily by 'node_modules' folders, especially when working with JavaScript projects. To assist with this, I have developed a Python script that quickly and efficiently deletes all 'node_modules' folders in a directory and its immediate subdirectories.
The script uses multi-threading to enhance the speed of the deletion process.
import os
import shutil
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
def delete_node_modules_path(node_modules_path):
try:
shutil.rmtree(node_modules_path)
print(f"Successfully deleted the folder: {node_modules_path}")
except Exception as e:
print(f"Could not delete the folder {node_modules_path} due to the following error: {e}")
def delete_node_modules(base_path):
# Verify if the provided path exists
if not os.path.exists(base_path):
print(f"The specified path does not exist: {base_path}")
return
# Get a list of all immediate subdirectories
subdirs = [os.path.join(base_path, d) for d in os.listdir(base_path) if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(base_path, d))]
# Traverse only one level down the directory structure and delete 'node_modules' folders
with ThreadPoolExecutor() as executor:
for subdir in subdirs:
node_modules_path = os.path.join(subdir, 'node_modules')
if os.path.exists(node_modules_path):
print(f"Processing: {subdir}")
executor.submit(delete_node_modules_path, node_modules_path)
if __name__ == "__main__":
base_path = os.getcwd()
print(f"The current base path is: {base_path}")
delete_node_modules(base_path)
try this for Windows
Get-ChildItem -Path . -Filter "node_modules" -Directory -Recurse | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse
we must separate the -r from the -force. We all write the word force, because the -f is ambiguous. Indeed, the -f can mean either -Filter or -Force
rm -r -force node_modules
